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SAOS Newsletter NEWSLETTER May 2019 Volume 14 Issue #5 CLUB NEWS May 7, 2019 Monthly SAOS divisions to pot up. Feel free to bring a plant that you’d like Meeting to learn how to repot. If you have more than one or two, by Janis Croft plan to bring them to Ace. Bring $5 to cover the cost of materials. Welcome and Thanks. - Birthdays this Month - Our Sunshine Coordinator and President Tom Sullivan Membership VP, Linda Stewart asked all of the May birthday opened the meeting at 7:00 people to raise their hand to receive their free raffle ticket. pm with a 79 attendees. He Then she announced that if you know of anyone in need of asked Rae to announce our a cheering up or a get well card, let her know by emailing guests and new members, her at [email protected]. Jennifer, Sabria and Zevi - Library – Librarian Bea Orendorff brought in two generic Jacobson, Bill and Deb books with chapters on Laelias and one DVD on Laelias Bodei, Michaeleen Chalut, for people to borrow. The library collection is listed on our Vern Bloch Barrie Nathanson, Lorene SAOS website. If you would like a book, send a request to Raynor and Dwayne Wynne. [email protected] and Bea will bring the item(s) Each received a free raffle to the next meeting. ticket for joining this month. Tom thanked Dorianna, Dottie, Celia and Dianne for bringing in desserts and Debbie Show Table. Courtney Hackney started the Show Table from Watson Reality for covering for Jeanette while by stating that he is ever more amazed at how well our she recovers from knee replacement surgery. He then club’s members grow orchids. The Oncidium sphacelatum reminded all to drop a dollar in the basket while enjoying seemed huge but Courtney said it could grow much larger. their refreshments. Tom next informed all that the Best of He had seen one while judging that had over 100 spikes Show voting would occur after the Show Table discussion and three people had to count the flowers and it didn’t even and the Silent Auction would end before the presentation. win a CCM. He encouraged all to vote for their favorite orchid on the The table had several Phragmipediums that were Show Table. interesting to see all together. All phrags like good water like reverse osmosis or pure rainwater and they tend to Club Business. Shows in Florida this Month - Volusia grow in cooler climates than ours. If you can protect them County Orchid Society and the Redland Festival are this from our intense summer heat, you will get good growth. month. Check out the website under Calendar of Events The Phrag. Inca Ember likes constant moisture and can for details. grow hydroponically. It will have continual buds as a mature - Ace Repotting Clinic will be on June 1, 2019 from 9 - noon plant. at Ace Hardware, 3050 US 1 South. - Catasetum Raffle – Sue held up her catasetum plug to show how the competition is growing, many said that their plants were much larger. We should begin watering once the new growth unfurls, and watch our plugs grow. She will continue to update us monthly on what to expect. - Supplies – email info@staugorchidsociety. org if you need supplies. - Keiki Club/Mentoring Program – Want to learn about potting mixes and repotting orchids? On May 26, the Keiki Club will meet at Sue and Terry Bottom’s home. Bring a 4 and 6 inch pot, and we will have Continued on page 3 May 2019 Page 1 CLUB NEWS August 2-3 Ninth Annual Cattleya Symposium Sponsored by Odom’s Orchids Indian River Research & Education Ctr Fort Pierce 3 SAOS at Ace Hardware, 9 am til 1 pm 3050 US 1 S in St. Augustine Repotting and Plant Clinic 6 SAOS Meeting, 7 pm Jim Roberts, Florida SunCoast Orchids Upcoming Orchid Events Hybridizing Our Orchids May 10 Florida North-Central AOS Judging, 1 pm Clermont Judging Ctr, 849 West Ave. 11 Florida North-Central AOS Judging, 1 pm 13 JOS Meeting, Orchid Propagation, 7 pm Clermont Judging Ctr, 849 West Ave. Steve Arthur, Steve Arthur Orchids 11-12 Volusia County Orchid Society Show Volusia County Fairgrounds 17-19 Redland International Orchid Festival Fruit and Spice Park, Homestead St. Augustine Orchid Society Organization 26 Keiki Club Get-Together, 1 pm Growing Area Tour – Repotting President Tom Sullivan Sue and Terry Bottom’s Home [email protected] 6916 Cypress Lake Court, St. Aug 32086 Vice President Janis Croft June Communications [email protected] 1 Repotting at Ace Hardware, 9 am til 1 pm Vice President Dianne Batchelder 3050 US 1 S in St. Augustine Events [email protected] 1-2 Central Florida Orchid Society Show Nat’l Guard Armory, Orlando Vice President Linda Stewart 4 SAOS Meeting, 6:30 pm Membership [email protected] Allen Black, Allen Black Orchids Novelty Breeding – Stars & Stripes Vice President Sue Bottom 8 Florida North-Central AOS Judging, 1 pm Programs [email protected] Clermont Judging Ctr, 849 West Ave. 11 JOS Meeting, Dendrobiums, 7 pm Treasurer Bill Gourley Mark Reinke, Marble Branch Orchids [email protected] 22 Keiki Club, leave at 9 am for 11 am arrival Directors at Large Susan Smith, 2017 Field Trip to Krull Smith Orchids [email protected] 2800 W. Ponkan Rd, Apopka, FL 32712 Doug Smith, 2019 If you want to carpool or caravan: [email protected] email [email protected] Bob Schimmel, 2019 July [email protected] 6 Repotting at Ace Hardware, 9 am til 1 pm Exhibit Committee Janis Croft 3050 US 1 S in St. Augustine Chair [email protected] 9 JOS Meeting, Dozen Orchids, 7 pm Tom Wise, AOS Judge Librarian Bea Orendorff 10 SAOS Meeting, 6:30 pm [email protected] Tom Wise, AOS Judge Bewitching Doritis Species & Hybrids Newsletter Editors Sue and Terry Bottom 13 Florida North-Central AOS Judging, 1 pm Webmasters [email protected] Clermont Judging Ctr, 849 West Ave. [email protected] May 2019 Page 2 CLUB NEWS Continued from page 1 There were several Cattleya varieties including the C. maxima with its numerous light purple flowers with dark purple veined lip. Keeping the purple theme, the C. violacea ‘Icabaru’ had striations on petals and its lip exterior was entirely purple with a white and yellow interior. The purple C. Tiny Titan ‘Sure Thing’ continues the theme with all petals being lavender and the lip having a yellow interior. We also had the lavender Lc. Irene Finley ‘Spring’s Best’ and the different synonyms (identical plants with different names). Ascf. Cherry Blossom ‘Carmela’ showing off their purplish The plants classification has also changed multiple times. colors. Asctm. miniatum shared its compact orange flowers In 2000, it was reclassified into the Sophronitis genus but as a contrast to all the purple/lavender on the show table. then in 2011, reclassified into the Cattleya genus. It is a Sue Bottom’s Catasetum Jumbo Pearl had two outstanding unifoliate cattleya that grows erect so it takes up less bench inflorescences of deep almost black flowers and Courtney space in the greenhouse. It typically grows in the high tree noted that Sue is an excellent grower of this genus. Check canopy loving the bright light and lots of air movement. out the photos of our show table examples at the end of the It also likes warm, wet summers. Typically it has white newsletter and on the SAOS website. to pink petals and sepals along with a tubular, trumpet shaped lip with a yellowish throat with crimson to purple veins. However, Vern warned, there are significant color variations in the species and proceeded to show us slides of all the varieties. There are nine varieties with stabilized color forms, like the varieties flammea, striata, venous, carnea, alba, sauvissima, albescens, virginalis and russelliana. Additional varieties include var. mandayana which has only been identified on one man made plant and var. werkhauserii which has slate blue striping and is nicknamed the “witch’s flower.” The original finder of the werkhauserii divided the plant into two and gave each half to his son and daughter. The daughter’s plant eventually bloomed with the first SAOS Program. Sue Bottom introduced our evening’s speaker, Vern Bloch from Malabar who discussed Laelia real blue and she would never show it or divide it. After purpurata and its hybrids. He also brought several varieties 50 years, she agreed to sell five bulb divisions to a group to sell at the back table, one of which was the typical of five buyers. When the purchase time arrived (a late Laelia purpurata which he held up to show its gorgeous afternoon on Friday), they presented her with the check flowers. These grow in southern Brazil, a similar distance which she refused to accept. She would only take cash. from the equator as mid-Florida. One difference in climate Luckily one of the buyers owned a bank and quickly went is the cooler south Atlantic seas have a strong influence to reopen the bank and withdraw the cash. He was back in on the growth of the species. Vern has researched Laelia time to make the purchase and sign the contract. As they purpurata and his primary resources are Mauro Rosen’s left, they announced that they got the “witch’s flower” and excellent photos and documentation along with a book by thus the nickname. Vern then proceeded to show us slides Lou Menezes. Brazilians identify the Laelia purpurata as of the varieties listed above crossed with other plants to their national flower also and the government has passed produce some wonderful, very colorful hybrids.
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